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Contested election: How a close race with dueling polls creates risk of surprises, delays, and doubts - Washington Examiner

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The consensus about the 2024 race for the White House has totally collapsed.

Biden still maintains he could have won, most recently in an appearance on The View, but few Democrats believed that.

Some polls show Harris outperforming Biden ’s ill-fated reelection campaign but his successful 2020 performance.

Polls show a liberal response-rate bias in Harris ’s favor in a number of polls testing her against Trump head-to-head.

The uncertainty is already driving political observers mad, but it is entirely possible that the election ends up being historically close like 1960 or 2000 , except with multiple states reprising the role Florida played in the nail-biter between Bush and Gore .

Election officials and media outlets are bracing for uncertainty, slow vote-counting, and delays in declaring the winner.

Clinton conceded in 2016 and attended Trump ’s inauguration.

Clinton and Gore cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2000 and 2016 elections in other ways.

Antle: Any contemporary equivalent of hanging chads and butterfly ballots chaos will feed skepticism on the losing side.